Fly-killer.



Patented lan. 9, |900.

' R. R. MONTGOMERY.

FLY KILLER.

(Application filed Oct. 13, 1899.)

(N0 Model.)

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` UNITED STATES ROBERT R. MONTGOMERY, OF DEOATUR, ILLINOIS.

FLY-KILLER..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 640,790, dated January 9, 19.

' Application fled October 13, 1899. Serial No. 733,489. (No model.)

To all whom it may con/cern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT R. MONTGOM- ERY, of the city of Decatur, county of Macon, and State lof Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Fly-Killer, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to fly-killers made of wire-netting. Its object is to provide a cheap device of unusual elasticity and durability, which is exemplified in the structure hereinafter described, and defined in the appended claims.

In constructing an insect-killer in accordance with my invention a rectangular piece of wire-netting is used, such pieces being preferably oblong, and the handle end of the killer is formed by folding over the corners of one of the ends onto the body of the netting across each other on oblique lines extending from near the center of the narrow end Well up along the broader sides. The folds are right-angled triangles with the bend on the hypotenuses, and the sides of the triangles formed by the end of the netting are much shorter than the sides of the triangles formed from the sides of the netting. A handle is attached to the folded part of the netting in line with the longitudinal axis thereof, and it terminates at or near the internal angle formed by the inner edges of the folds. The folds extend beyond the handle, gradually decreasing in width as they extend, and such extensions elastically reinforce the flap of netting near the handle.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l represents a iiap of netting folded to form a connection for the handle and provide elastic reinforcement for the flap. Fig. 2 represents a complete killer with the handle attached in a preferred manner. Fig. 3 is an edge view of the killer, illustrating in dotted lines the whip-like swing of the flap resulting from the elastic reinforcement of the triangular extensions of the folds.

The iiap of wire-netting is shown at l, the folded corners at 2, and the handle at 4. The flap is preferably bound on three sides to include both the warp and the weft, or the long wires and the short wires, while the third side, which forms the operative end of the iap, is bound in a manner to leave the warp or long wires projecting to form a fringe or brush, as 3. The fringe is useful in providing a softer end to the flap, whereby injury to articles subjected to sharp blows of the killer is reduced to a minimum; but it is not indispensable.

The handle is preferably slotted in one of its ends to straddle the folded part of the Hap; but it may be left intact and secured to the flap between the folds and the body or outside both. In either case tacks, as 5, or their equivalent may be used to connect the handle with the flap, and in all cases the three thicknesses of netting produced by the folds supply a firm hold for the handle.

The device is used to strike flies or other insects, and its utility is increased by its elasticity,rwhile its strength and durability are augmented by doubling the thickness where elasticity is required and trebling it at the handle end.

l. A wire-netting flap for insect-killers having its corners at one end folded over each other and over the body of the flap, substantially as described.

2. A wire-netting iiap forinsect-killers having its corners at one end folded over each other to form an internal angle at the intersection of the inner edges of the folds, and a handle connected with the body of the flap and with the folds and terminating at the apex of the internal angle formed by the folds, substantially as described.

3. An insect-killer comprising a wire-netting flap having a handle connected to the center of one of its ends and oblique reinforcements forpthe netting extending from the handle sidewise and beyond the end of the same.

4. An insect-killer comprising a wire-netting iiap having a handle connected to the center of one of its ends, and oblique reinforcements of wire-netting from the handle sidewise and beyond the end of the same.

5. An insect-killer comprising a wire-netting flap fringed at its operative end and ROBERT R. MONTGOMERY.

Witnesses:

F. S. PownRs, T. A. POWERS.

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